As I've been hanging around the site the last few days, watching all the Warren diaries come and go, and doing my best to combat some of the more obvious manifestations of ignorance and stupidity in many of them, I've been troubled by a nagging feeling of déjà vu. I knew I'd been through something of the sort before, I just couldn't put a finger on what or when it was.
Then, as I was heading to bed early this morning after logging off from yet another crappy, whiny diary about how put-upon some diarist was at having to listen to us homosexuals whine about something as insignificant as our civil rights, it struck me. I remembered where and when and what had led to the same kind of feelings: this very site, four years ago, in the wake of John Kerry's loss to G. Dumbya Bush.
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